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Q: What chemical would you use to test a food for the presence of vitamin B?
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What is the photo-chemical reaction that takes place in the presence of sunlight and is responsible for providing food for everyone?

The photo-chemical reaction that takes place in the presence of sunlight and is the source of food for everyone is called photosynthesis.


What is photosynthesis and what chemical involve in it?

Photosynthesis is the process at which the plant makes food in the presence of sunlight, water and CO2.


What types of food would test positive result for carbohydrates proteins fats?

Any food that has carbohydrate, protein, and fats can be shown positive for those food test. It is basically a chemical reaction that indicate the presence of food component by a specific color formation.


Is your teeth grinding food a mechanical or chemical change?

The teeth grinding is a mechanical change. The saliva mixing in with the food and starting the digestive process would be a chemical change.


What is calcitriol?

In presence of ultraviolet rays of sun Cholesterol in skin is converted to Cholecalciferol. then in Liver it get converted to 25 Cholecalciferol. then in kidney, it get converted to 1,25 Cholecalciferol. Which is active form of Vitamin D. Also called as Calitriol. If execass of Vitamin 'D' is ingested as in Cod Liver intake, then body converts it into 24, 25 cholecalciferol, which is almost inactive form of Vitamin 'D'. You have almost no Vitamin 'D' in diary food or any other food. So almost all people have subclinical vitamin 'D' deficiency, except people living in polar area. (Who almost never get heart attack.) so Vitamin 'D' should be added by government in food. Calcitriol deposites calcium salt in bones, enhance absorption of calcium salts from intestine, Reabsorbs calcium ion from kidney.

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If a food contains Vitamin K is it required that the vitamin's presence be listed on the label?

Only if it is added. If it is present naturally it is not listed.


What is the photo-chemical reaction that takes place in the presence of sunlight and is responsible for providing food for everyone?

The photo-chemical reaction that takes place in the presence of sunlight and is the source of food for everyone is called photosynthesis.


How can light decrease the shelf life of food?

The presence of light can lead to rancidity, fading of natural colors and vitamin loss of food.


What would be a chemical change in food?

a complete chemical analysis of a food would show that it is composed mostly of what


What is photosynthesis and what chemical involve in it?

Photosynthesis is the process at which the plant makes food in the presence of sunlight, water and CO2.


What types of food would test positive result for carbohydrates proteins fats?

Any food that has carbohydrate, protein, and fats can be shown positive for those food test. It is basically a chemical reaction that indicate the presence of food component by a specific color formation.


Why would food digesting be a chemical change?

Food digestions involve many chemical reactions.


What is the perfect food?

Non. Such food does not exist and the content would be forced to differ depending on individual needs.For example, Vitamin A is fat soluble and can therefore be stored in high amounts in the human body. High storage levels of this vitamin is toxic and low levels have several negative health effects. So for some the perfect food would be low in vitamin A while for other it would be high in Vitamin A.Therefore no perfect food can exist for everyone.


What impact can food processing have on vitamin content of food?

destroys the vitamin


What food is found in vitamin f?

find food vitamin f


Is it true that food is an example of chemical change?

Not exactly but food, like any gas, liquid or solid, is made up of one or more chemicals. Plants growing is 'chemical change'. Food rotting is 'chemical change' Cooking food is 'chemical change'. Without 'chemical change' or chemical reactions, plants would not exist. Human beings would not exist. Anything we eat would not exist. Planet Earth would not exist!


What food group contains vitamins?

Vitamins are an organic compound required by an organism as vital nutrient in limited amounts. They can be found in Grains,Vegetables,Fruits, Milk, Meat, Beans,Oils, which is the main Food Group. An organic chemical compound is called a vitamin when it cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities by an organism.